governor mark dayton told friends and relatives of the man who was killed by police that in his words, justice will be served. these killings have sparked something on a national level. galvanizing protestors in cities all over. this was the scene in portland yesterday evening. thousands took to the streets for protests. >>> and in washington, dc, a parade of protestors marched to the capitol building. farther down the street, groups gathered in front of the white house calling to end police brutality. this again is in the wake of the two police shootings of two black men caught on camera. >>> this morning, facebook is apologizing for taking down the video of the minnesota shooting. their explanation? facebook told buzzfeed it was because of a technical glitch. they say they restored the video and were able to pinpoint the problem. the ceo weighed in saying, the images we have seen this week are graphic and heartbreaking and they shine a light on the fear that millions of members of our community live with every day. >>> time now 4:36. let's check traffic and weather. >> it was chilly

governor mark dayton vowed justice will be served. >> would this have happened if the driver or the passenger were white? i don't think it would of. >> reporter: the u.s. justice department says it will monitor the situation. marlie hall, cbs news, st. paul, minnesota. >>> for a third straight night, people gathered in baton rouge, louisiana, to protest the police shooting of alton sterling. the shooting happened outside of a convenience store. this morning, "the daily beast" is reporting that police allegedly confiscated the store's surveillance video without a warrant. a lawyer for the store's owner >>> i'm jeff glor. >> good morning. president obama is here in war saw to tackle a number national security issues here at nato, but for the second time in less than 24 hours, he is going to be addressing the violence back home. it was last night, immediately upon arrival, that he first spoke out saying he was deeply disturbed by what is recently happened in baton rouge and minnesota. and called on americans to really self-search here and look at some of what he called racial disparities embedde

. >> reporter: governor mark dayton called for the department of justice to open an investigation. >> would this have happened if it the passenger or driver were white? i don't think it would have. >> reporter: philando castile worked for the st. paul public schools since 2002. one coworker described him as quiet, respectful and kind. "i knew him as warm and funny." antonio johnson is his cousin. what was he like? >> homebody. he took care of his family. he loved his family. he went to work. that's it. he played video games. that's it. >> reporter: the two police officers involved are now on paid administrative leave. maurice, tonight the department of justice said it is continuing to monitor this situation. >> dubois: anna werner in st. paul tonight. now to the investigation of the shooting in baton rouge. david begnaud is there. [bleeped]. >> reporter: in addition to the cell phone videos which graphically captured alton sterling's death, investigators are now looking at surveillance footage from outside the s.s.s. food mart where the shooting occurred. baton rouge police officers s

and minnesota governor mark dayton made it very clear he believes castile's race was a factor in thehooting death. >> would this have happened if those passengers, the driver and passenger were white? i don't think it would have. so i'm forced to confront, and i think all of us in minnesota, are forced to confront this kind of racism exists. >> colleagues who worked with philando castile remembering him as a role model. according to "time" magazine he worked at a cafeteria supervisor where his coworkers say he memorized the names of the 500 children he served every day he knew their food allergies and he called them by name one by one as they came through that cafeteria line. turning to the shooting death of alton sterling in baton rouge, louisiana, we're learning more about the police officers involved there. according to more than 600 pages of disciplinary records obtained by nbc news, officers blane salamoni and howie lake had five plants between them, three of which were for use of force and each time the internal affairs division cleared them. speaking with nbc news attorney chr

by morning, governor mark dayton, a democrat, announced he's seeking a federal civil rights investigation. but to many in the crowd, including the reverend danny givens, those words rang hollow. >> you keep telling us you're going to do something! i sat at the table with you! i just want you to put some action on it! put some respect on our people's names! that's all i want. i just want it to be real. >> sreenivasan: castile's girlfriend was also at the rally, and directed her frustration at police. >> they did not check for pulse on the scene of the crime. they did not make sure that he was breathing. they instantly rushed their colleague off to the side where they comforted him. would this have happened if passengers were waiting, i don't thinks. i'm forced to think this kind of racism economist. >> sreenivasan: police officials did not identify the officer except to say he's been on paid administrative leave. friends and family of philando castile spoke of him kindly. a black lives matter sign hung today and a protest was at the governor's mansion. >> enough is enough! our community ne

>>reporter: minnesota's governor, mark dayton, says he is shocked, calling the event appalling at alls. >> if this was a passenger or driver or passenger were white i don't think it would have. >>reporter: reynolds speaking out. >> i did it so the world knows these police are not here to protect they are here to assassinate us they are here to kill us because we are black. >>reporter: she says police initially sent her to the wrong hospital. >> they sent me in the whole wrong direction so i never got to see him before they did it whatever they did i never got to save my last words to that man. >>reporter: castile's family tell cnn it feels like open season on african-americans. >> i think black in the wrong place we are being hunted every day. it is a silent war against african-american people as a whole. >>reporter: castile the second black man in two days to be killed in police shootings involving eyewitness video. 37 -year-old alton stirling shot tuesday morning in louisiana. cnn has learned officers approached sterling after a homeless man called 911 claiming that sterling brandis

mark dayton decided not to run. i had loved my job as a prosecutor and i made some really good changes to the office and got positive results. i had seen what you could do to make a difference in government holding people accountable and publishing what happens when you got things done. i wanted to take that kind of philosophy to somewhere i know everybody believes things are still broken but i have this optimistic belief that you can get things done. that drove me from a professional standpoint. from a substantive standpoint it , was all about standing up for people. doing things for the good of the state and the good of the country. little did i know when i got to the senate about a year later that bridge would collapse in the middle of the summer day. an eight lane highway. i said a bridge shouldn't just fall down in the middle of america. we decided we were going to rebuild it. we were able to get that money in a record amount of time. a dozen people lost their lives. many more were injured. it was a reminder of

the state of governor mark dayton and senator al franken, the state of walter mondale, the first person in american history to put a woman geraldine ferraro on a national major party ticket. >> minnesota is the home of hubert horatio humphrey who at the 1948 convention in philadelphia called on delegates and to the nation to get out of the shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights, casts 47 votes for bernie sande sanders. >> and, and madam secretary, the great state of minnesota casts 42 votes for the next president of the united states, hillary clinton. >> thank you very much, minnesota. you have cast 42 votes for secretary clinton and 47 votes for senator sanders. mississippi. mississippi, you have 41 votes. how do you cast your votes? >> madam secretary, on behalf of the great state of mississippi, home of the blues, b.b. king, elvis presley and so on, let me say on behalf of fannie lou hamer who made this delegation look like the rainbow tonight because of her activities in atlantic city in 1964, we cast 33 votes for hillary rodham clint

video that's come into our newsroom, about 200 people protesting outside of minnesota governor mark dayton'sansion. a man was with a woman and a child in the car. that woman was apparently his girlfriend and captured the very graphic scene on facebook live. in a video that we're not showing 281e she tells!4[e the officer that caste l had a license to carry. the handgun was recovered from the scene and the officer involved has been placed on administrative leave. >>> new protests over the deadly police shooting of a black man in baton 37-year-old alton sterling was killed on tuesday. protesters held a candelight vigil last night and gathered peacefully. there is no video of the shooting. it can be disturbing to watch. the video shows officers pinning him to the ground and one shoots him several times. two officers are on administrative leave. the u.s. department of justice is investigating. >>> a d.c. firefighter is on administrative leave for something he posted on line about that shooting in baton rouge. norman brooks' facebook posts have been deleted by d.c. fire and ems tells news 4 he i

governor mark dayton said he didn't think this, >> the video that was taken, no one should be put in their car. and very different kind of response. i am heartbroken for minnesota. >> protests spring up across the country from dallas to new york city, los angeles, chicago, atlanta, seattle, and washington dc. president obama weighed in on the shooting and said this is an issue the entire country should be concerned about. >> this is not just a black issue, not just a hispanic issue, this is an american issue. we should all care about it. all fair-minded people should be concerned. >> president obama is in meeting with european leaders and he has been briefed on the shootings in dallas and will be updated to get more information and awaiting possible remarks from the president on dallas in the next few minutes. >> we are monitoring that nato meeting and weill bring it live. you are looking at a picture of the president talking at the nato summit. >> specifically the situation in dallas, texas. my team has been keeping me updated throughout the morning or evening in dallas. i spoke thi

the governor of that state, mark dayton, came out. it would have never happened. i would say if that officer is guilt y guilty but we don't know the facts yet. >> are we jumping to conclusions here? are we giving him the right to tell the story or have you already made the decision? >> listen, first of all i want to say what he just said is exactly is reason we have a problem with police violence. immediately he says it's not a racial issue. let's start from the beginning. he pulled him over because he looked like a robbery suspect. that means he was black and male. it doesn't mean he actually looked like the person. he is just black and male. >> no. no. hold on. may i? >> i'm saying we have a systemic problem in identifying anybody black as anybody black. we cannot ignore that that is a problem. number two, he was not following protocol. the proper protocol would be to lay them on the ground, secure them and go ahead and search them for a weapon. >> steven, is that true? what would the proper protocol have been? >> put your hands on

the outrage over castile's met with a shocking admission of racism by minnesota governor mark dayton. >> would have that happened if those passengers, the driver, the passengers, were white? i don't think it would have. this kind of racism exists. >> dayton says he wants federal help in the investigation. >> it's incumbent upon all of us to vow we're going to do whatever we can to see it doesn't happen. it doesn't continue to happen. >> reynolds says she and her 4-year-old daughter diana, in the back seat at the time of the deadly shooting, were taken into custody, held for over seven hours. >> they manipulated me to go to the station where they agreed to feed us and give us water and they didn't. they separated myself and my daughter. >> in the video, you can hear reynold's daughter comforting her own mother in the back of the police car. >> it's okay, i'm right here with you. >> diana's grandmother fears at only 4 years old she will be scarred for life. >> we raise our kids to believe the police are here to protect us. i have a 4-year-old granddaughter who would beg to differ. what

. >> reporter: good morning, protesters have gathered outside a minnesota governor mark dayton's mansion here in the capital of st. paul. there's about three dozen of them. this comes after a facebook live video went viral last night. the video appears to show the moments following the shooting of a 32-year-old black man from st. paul. the video shows a blood-soaked man identified by family as 32-year-old phaldo ka steel. his girlfriend says he was carrying a weapon, but that he had a license to carry. she tells the camera and the officer that he was going to show the officer his id. >> i told you not to reach for it. >> you told him to get his id, sir, his driver's license. >> reporter: for now the incident is under investigation, as for the officer involved, he is now on paid, administrative leave. the interim police chief says they have not had a police-involved shooting in that department in over 30 years. at this point, it's unclear how long these protesters plan on gathering outside of the mansion. for now that's the latest here in st. paul. nbc news. >> reporter: i'm in baton roug

. >> governor mark dayton and protesters here are calling for the justice department to step in and leadtion. so far the justice department, though, is resisting those calls, saying they have faith in the state agency, bureau of criminal apprehension currently leading the investigation. the justice department says they are monitoring things and will step in and assist if necessary. the officer who fired those shots has been questioned. we do know that the officer was not wearing a body camera but there is dash-cam from his patrol car and a second patrol car. that dash-cam video apparently has audio. that is being reviewed as part of the investigation. the county attorney here in ramsey county, minnesota, is calling for this investigation to not only be thorough but to also be quick. he says the community is demanding answers and they deserve them in a timely manner. craig. >> blake mccoy in st. paul, minnesota. blake, thank you. >>> seeking justice, how does the family of alton sterling in baton rouge get that? the sterling family attorney will join me next. men. 80% try to eat healthy,

the governor there, mark dayton, says that the officer probably would not have shot and killed castilehite. >> nobody should be shot and killed in minnesota for a traffic -- a taillight being out of function. nobody should be shot and killed still in their car without very, very different kind of response. so i'm heartbroken for minnesota. >> it's been tough on the community and the state and beyond. mike tobin is outside the governor's mansion in st. paul. how have things been? >> reporter: some trouble last night. of the hundreds and hundreds of people who showed up here to demonstrate, 20 of them, mostly kids, hung around until 2:00 a.m. and then went marching a couple of blocks from here, over to groaned avenue, where they found an unattended police vehicle. they took after the police vehicle with rocks and baseball bats throughout the night. the cops showed up, told them to get out. the kids refused and turned the rocks on the police officered. that lasted for a while. the kids dispersed. one was arrested and aheard from a police officer that a molotov cometail was thrown. out the

governor mark dayton says he reached out to the white house and asked the feds get involved, the departmente is expended to descend on the case. >> thank you very much. we'll continue to follow that. back to capitol hill. attorney general low -- loretta lynch next in the hot seat. the republican national committee issuing this statement. many americans will understandably have a difficult time believing the obama justice department conducted a fair and impartial investigation when you have the concern general secretly meeting with bill clinton and the clinton campaign , leaking that lynch could remain ag days after it was announces the charges would not be pursued. reince priebus will be joining us. first, bret baier on the fallout now. we were just speaking with congressman jordan who said it's up to tray gowdy if they will pursue a perjury probe. what do you think? >> well, i think they're going to refer something to the fbi, according to the chairman of the house oversight of government reform committee, jason chaffetz, who said he would be getting the paperwork to fbi director by day's

had this morning, in front of the residence that -- alison: there you have the minnesota governor mark dayton talking about this latest officer-involved shooting. philando castile was the victim in this one. you know, he basically said i'm heartbroken for minnesota today. jonathan: the particulars of the case are outrageous. the officer pulled this guy over for what they said was a broken taillight. alison: traffic stop. jonathan: the officer came up to the side of the car, the driver identified himself as he had a gun and a legal right to carry it. had a license for it and everything. he identified that to the officer and that is opened fire. michelle: we heard from the governor sharing his personal views on this saying he does not believe this situation would have played out the way we saw it play out yesterday had the driver been white. or any other race other than black. there is that racial component to this, that we will be discussing for many days to come. but yes, another tragedy. now looking at back-to-back tragedies. regardless of your thoughts on the decisions that law enforcement

. >> minnesota's governor mark dayton said today he doesn't believe castille would have been shot if been white. both men had guns on them. in both cases, they had permits to carry the gun. >> did they? >> castile definitely did. >> i don't think sterling had a permit, because he had a long rap sheet. >> but sterling was not threatening the officer. >> the trouble with these stories when they come to light, there's a tendency to rush to judgment and it almost guaranties whatever you say right now will be riding on less facts than people intimately involved in this case know. so whatever i'm saying, i can say right now. i know almost nothing. i'm okay with saying that. i will say this, these are vastly different cases. but we have this tendency to join all of these incidents together, which adds to a sweeping assumption about the world. but each one of these cases has to be looked at separately. you have to look at the questions that you had. castile, was he told not to reach for anything? because the filming started after. did the cop say, please don't reach, and he reached. with ste

minnesota's governor mark dayton said he requested the justice department investigate the case. the justice department said it would monitor the state investigation being conducted by minnesota's state bureau of criminal apprehension. the governor was blunt in his assessment of the killing. >> would this have happened if those passengers, the driver and the passenger were white? i don't think it would have. so i'm ers toed to confront -- i think all of us in minnesota are forced to confront this kind of -- racism exists. >> this comes less than 48 hours after the shooting death of alton sterling in baton rouge, a shooting at very close range, also that shooting caught on tape. >> president obama after arri arriving in warsaw, spoke about statistics and called for bipartisan action. >> according to various studies, not just one, but a wide range of studies that have been carried out over a number of years, african americans are 30% more likely than whites to be pulled over. after being pulled over, african americans and hispanics are three times more likely to be searched. last y

governor mark dayton told friends and relatives of the man who was killed by police that in his words, justice will be served. these killings have sparked something on a national level. galvanizing protestors in cities all over. this was the scene in portland yesterday evening. thousands took to the streets for protests. >>> and in washington, dc, a parade of protestors marched to the capitol building. farther down the street, groups gathered in front of the white house calling to end police brutality. this again is in the wake of the two police shootings of two black men caught on camera. >>> this morning facebook is apologizing for taking down the video of the minnesota shooting. their explanation? facebook told buzzfeed it was because of a technical glitch. they say they restored the video and were able to pinpoint the problem. the ceo weighed in saying, the images we have seen this week are graphic and heartbreaking and they shine a light on the fear that millions of members of our community live with every day. sco's bernal caught fire. when >>> right now, crews are dousing hot s

they've set up there outside of governor mark dayton's residence. the first night we've seen this many demonstrations pop up across the country. but we expect to see more and more in the coming days and nights. we are keeping an eye on as many of these proftests as we can. we'll be right back. mary buys a little lamb. one of millions of orders on this company's servers. accessible by thousands of suppliers and employees globally. but with cyber threats on the rise, mary's data could be under attack. with the help of at&t, and security that senses and mitigates cyber threats, their critical data is safer than ever. giving them the agility to be open & secure. because no one knows & like at&t. that reminds me... anyone have occasional constipation, diarrhea... ...gas, bloating? yes! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against occasional digestive issues. with three types of good bacteria. live the regular life. phillips'. and an early morning mode.ode. and a partly sunny mode. and an outside... to clear inside mode. transiti

immediately after the shooting, minnesota's governor mark dayton said he believed that had castile beenn the outcome would have been different. there was racial issues at play here. he got a lot of pushback from law enforcement calling the remarks irresponsible. when i followed with the governor, he's standing by those. >> do you standby the remarks? >> i said them. i said them. i'm not going to back and rehash what i said yesterday. i standby what i said yesterday based on the information i had. >> the best piece of evidence you would have in a case like this is a body camera on the officer. unfortunately saint anthony police don't have body cameras. we won't have the direct point of view of the officer's. we have dash cam video with audio. the police cars were parked behind castile's car. we're not expecting it to show very much. >> okay. thank you, nbc's blake mccoy in saint paul, minnesota. >>> still to come in dallas, the latest response to the latest massacre in america. eddie bernese johnson will discuss me to discuss her renewed calls for action on capitol hill. pain... shoots a

the minnesota governor, mark dayton, had some strong words. >> would this have happened if the driver and the passenger were white? i don't think it would have. so i'm forced to confront, and i think all of us are forced to confront, this kind of racism exists. >> the governor from yesterday. mike tobin now outside the governor's manages in st. paul. mike, how are things there? >> reporter: there was a little bit of trouble last night. the hundreds of people who gathered here at the governor's mansion, 20 kids, mostly, hung around until 2:00 it a.m., and they took off marching down grand avenue. they found an unoccupied police cruiser and took after it with baseball bats and rocks. police showed up, gave them multiple orders to leave. the kids turned on the police with the rocks. ultimately the kids did disperse. there was one molotov cocktail thrown, no one was injured. there was one arrest made last night. as you look back live at the governor's mansion in st. paul, you can see the crowd of hundreds of demonstrators has dwindled now to 20 or 30. >> is there talk or was there talk, m

his name is mark dayton. he said race did play a factor in philando castile's death. he said if castile were white he might not have been pulled over in the first place and said there is a double standard when it comes to policing. families are wondering how to discuss the issue with their children. in black communities part of the discussion includes what to sam ford has that story. >> me and my son had a talk the other night. reporter: tyreke is the manager of the barner shop in suitland and the father of 14-year-old jayden who hangs around the shop sometimes. the events in equilibrium, minnesota and dallas in the past week seized their attention and made police etiquette if you will an important discussion. >> i just want him to be respectable. you know what i'm saying? be respectful. do what you are supposed to do and hopefully we don't have to encounter too many police. sam: but for his son, the message in an encounter with police is self-control. >> follow instructions. don't say nothing out of the way. do what he says. leave it at that. sam: you figure it will

at a press conference, minnesota governor mark dayton called for justice. >> would this have happenedose passengers, the driver and passenger were white? i don't think it would have. justice will be served. justice must be served. >> reporter: and now protesters it's not yet clear what happened in the moments before either confrontation. and as two communities and the nation look for answers, the investigations are just beginning. kirk gregory, nbc news. >>> texas lieutenant governor dan patrick has just ordered flags to fly at half staff across the state. we'll be sharing all of the developments about the police shootings on the nbc washington app today and will be sending out breaking news alerts as well. it is our top story online. >>> after the break, signs of recovering in west virginia, after deadly flooding. >>> and does the heat wave last all the way through the weekend? >>> a symbol of west virginia pride that was damaged in last month's flooding will reopen for business next week. the historic greenbrier resort will open on tuesday. the grounds and some of the rooms at the h

. >> i specifically blame hillary clinton, lieutenant governor and minnesota governor mark dayton for the murders of the four officers in dallas last night. before they start thinking about their own political careers they need to start thinking about the lives and the security of our police. jonathan: stewart is no stranger to controversy and says his comments today are his own and do not represent the trump campaign. alison: they with abc7 for continuing team coverage of the ambush in dallas. we'll bring any updates live right here. always online at wjla.com. you can also sign up for breaking news text alerts right there as well. michelle: but first, we could use this. storing a little faith -- restoring faith in humidity after a long week. leave his sick son's side. >> you know what? i'm not going to ask her to try to move over a little bit. jonathan: the hospital picture that has gone viral and update on his boy's condition. we have that for you coming up. then new at 5:00 -- the duet of a lifetime. what the little girl had to say about her experience at 5:00. prodders, shucker